continuing my first furring trip 1931.

After we got everything back to the wigwam Pop took the meat and took out all the muscles cut them down the middle about a quarter inch from through then he started to roll the neat out cutting it as he did when he finished he had a thin layed of meat like a thick piece of cloth he did the same with the other side when he finished it looked like a small blanket he hung this up inside the wigwam. he did this with the rest of the meat when he finished our wigwam looked like a slaughter house. now he shaved all the deer skins. I went with him to cut tan this was my learning process.the next year I would have to do it on my own. he finished this as I have already explained somewhere already. when everything was all done Pop said now I go look for a bear this could take two days longer if it rained. but there was only so much time for bear hunting because he had to make skinboots for himself and me. Uncle charley had to make his own Pop used to do most everything to prepare the skin for him but that was as far as it went. the reason it was harder to get a bear was because if it rained the bear will not come out . he would only come out on damp days if he was really hungry perhaps after couple days of steady rain. we could not waste time waiting for him because when october came in we had to start setting our gear [fox. lynx. snares. otter traps. now the walking began it would not end till a month or so after when we were ready to go home. we would start to set the snares and traps almost as soon as we left the wigwam. whenever we came to a good deer trail we would set a snare or a nice brook we set an otter trap but the otter traps were usually already there from years before same with some snares .We continued like this all day till we came to our first wigwam it was called crow brook I dont know why they did not give it a micmac name. but perhaps non native ways were slowly emerging. this was a small wigwam we remained there for one night hoping we wopuild not get heavy rain because this wigwam was on low land could easily flood.